Online Certificate: Entrepreneurship

September 26, 2013

Take the next step to develop and lead your business enterprise. Regent University offers a Certificate in Entrepreneurship that teaches practical skills to identify market trends and build a product or service that is in-demand. In this program, new and existing entrepreneurs will also learn strategies to structure and grow their business to thrive.

This certificate program is designed for beginning-to intermediate-level managers or entrepreneurs ready to launch new ventures, or who want continued growth in existing businesses. It is led by internationally respected experts, including faculty from Regent’s School of Business and Leadership, experienced international business leaders and executive coaches. This certificate promotes a greater understanding of entrepreneurial business management and the keys to successful business practice.

The certificate courses include the following topics:

CPC0310 - Principles of Entrepreneurship and the Purpose of Business

CPC0320 - Customers, Consumers and Hiring the Best Employees

CPC0330 - Accounting for What You Do

CPC0340 - Producing Quality Goods and Services

CPC0350 - Taking Your Business Plan to the Bank

***Participants must complete all five courses to obtain the certificate, but any one course may be taken individually.

The Certificate Course Descrptions:

CPC0310 - Principles of Entrepreneurship and the Purpose of Business

Entrepreneurs are known idea people. But even they need to know the steps to focus their thoughts to make their businesses successful. In this course you’ll not only learn how to identify the businesses you want to open in the future, but also the creative/innovative ways to make them successful. There are proven principles of successful entrepreneurship that you’ll learn so you’ll be able to explain them to stakeholders. Certainly a business is more than just a way for you to make money. Our instructors will show you how it can also be a means of improving the lives of customers, consumers, employees, stakeholders, owners and the community at large.

CPC0320 - Customers, Consumers and Hiring the Best Employees

Did you know there’s a difference between customers and consumers in business? Through this course you’ll learn why it’s so important to differentiate that. Instructors will teach you the importance of communicating differently to the various market segments and how the six P’s and six C’s of marketing play such a critical role in success. You’ll learn the difference between marketing objectives, marketing strategies, and marketing tactics among other important elements of this topic. Plus you’ll learn the best way to do interviews to be in accordance with human resource laws and regulations. Our experts will teach you the essential components to successful HR procedures.

CPC0330 - Accounting for What You Do

Oftentimes new entrepreneurs have some knowledge of accounting but usually not enough. This course teaches students how to build cash-flow, profit-loss, and balance statements, why the double-entry bookkeeping system is beneficial, how debits and credits work and the three types of depreciation.

CPC0340 - Producing Quality Goods and Services

One of the most important elements in growing a successful business is to provide quality goods and services. Through this course students will learn the important steps for doing that. They include the following: Developing a quality measurement method for the product/service; Understanding incremental quality improvement; Developing a system for feedback from customers and consumers to measure quality; and the key safety regulations that apply to the product/service as well as the workplace.

CPC0350 - Taking Your Business Plan to the Bank

All new businesses need funding to launch. During this course instructors will teach how to create a business plan that bankers/investors will support and be willing to fund. This will include how to strategically plan for the future of your business in a way that will help you navigate the market successfully. Since this is the final course of the certificate instructors will also tie together all the lessons from the previous courses to ensure students leave with solid foundation for starting their new ventures.

Who Should Attend:
Anyone who hopes to start a business, grow a new division, unit, or product in an existing business, or who wants to change the focus of a company. Aspiring entrepreneurs, junior and mid-level managers, and those seeking basic business skills.

Overall Participants will Learn:

What it takes to lead a sustainable business into the future

The role business plays in the economy, for stakeholders, communities etc.

Basic marketing skills, and strategies for managing a successful company

Ensuring people are well positioned, developed, managed, motivated etc.

Building cash-flow and profit-loss statements, and balance sheets

Balance appetites for expansion, new ventures or projects with quality and risks

Developing, introducing, presenting ideas to management or investors

Program Participants Will Learn Per Course:

CPC031 - Principles of Entrepreneurship and the Purpose of Business

Learning Outcomes:

1. What it takes to lead a sustainable business into the future
2. The role business plays in the economy, for stakeholders, communities etc.
3. Understand how innovation contributes to entrepreneurship.

CPC032 - Customers, Consumers and Hiring the Best Employees

Learning Outcomes:

1. Basic marketing skills, and strategies for managing a successful company
2. Ensuring people are well positioned, developed, managed, motivated etc.
3. How to make effective hiring decisions.

CPC0350 - Taking Your Business Plan to the Bank
January 9, 2013 - February 9, 2014

Discover the Regent Difference

$745 for the entire program.

Taught entirely online.

Taught by the Number One credentialed online MBA Faculty in the United States, as Ranked by US News and World Report.

No application process. No registration fees.

All course materials included in the cost of the program.

Dr. Gary Oster currently serves as a professor and Director of the Doctor of Strategic Leadership program. Prior to his academic endeavors, Gary was an executive in high-technology corporations, both domestically and overseas, focusing primarily upon the computer, electronics and automotive industries.

Dr. Bruce Winston is the current Dean of the School of Business and Leadership at Regent University. He is an expert in leadership, organizational development, university administration and strategic foresight. He serves as a lecturer and consultant in the U.S., Canada, Europe and South Africa.

Dr. Emilyn Cabanda has been a conference chair
and speaker in operations research and management sciences areas for professional organizations and universities in Australia, France, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, Malaysia, Japan, and Philippines.

Dr. Tim Redmer possesses a wealth of expertise in the areas of managerial accounting, budgeting, nonprofit accounting and corporate finance. He is a frequent presenter at various professional business conferences throughout the U.S. and has served more than 30 years in public and private education.

If you have any questions, please contact Regent University Professional and Continuing Education at tdjinfo@regent.edu or +1 757.352.4650.